What are the best art museums in Shanghai

I. West Coast Art Museum

Address: 2555 Longteng Avenue, Xuhui District, Shanghai

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-17:00

West Coast Art Museum is designed by the famous British architect David Chipperfield. Designed by renowned British architect David Chipperfield, its five-year exhibition collaboration with the Pompidou Center in Paris is not only the first collaboration project of the Pompidou Center in Asia, but also the first attempt by China to operate a cultural institution with a top foreign art museum***.

Recent Exhibitions: "The Sound of Everything" (2021.7.28-2023.2.5), with "objects" running through the narrative, traces the development of the history of modernism, and various art installations at different periods of time, loaded with the whims and fancies of artists. and the artists' ideas and wonders.

"They and Abstraction" (2022.11.11-2023.03.28), the first thematic exhibition focusing on female abstract artists in China, shows the development history of Chinese and foreign abstract artists since the end of the 19th century and the process by which female abstract artists have gradually been "seen" and recognized. This is the first exhibition in China to focus on female abstract artists, showcasing the development of Chinese and foreign abstract artists since the late 19th century and the gradual process of female abstract artists being "seen" and recognized, as well as revaluating the important contribution of women to abstract art.

II. The Bund Art Museum

Address: 20 Huqiu Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai

Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-18:00

Shanghai's Bund Art Museum, one of the earliest art museums in China, was formerly known as the Asia Literature Society Building, which was constructed in 1932 and designed by British architect George? It was designed by British architect George Wilson. The building combines elements of Chinese and Western cultures and has an elegant and refined Art Deco style. I*** has six floors, with a lecture hall on the second floor, a library on the third floor, and a museum exhibition hall on the fourth to fifth floors, all with different architectural features. The exterior of the building is in the European Deco architectural style with some traditional Chinese decorative elements.

Three. Pudong Art Museum

Address: No. 2777, Binjiang Avenue, Pudong District, Shanghai

Opening hours: 10:00-21:00 daily

The Pudong Art Museum focuses on the international art exhibition and exchange, taking into account the domestic art display, highlighting the four major functions of exhibitions, aesthetic education, cultural creation and international exchanges, and is committed to becoming a new landmark for Shanghai's international cultural venues and an important platform for international cultural and artistic exchanges. It is committed to becoming a new landmark of Shanghai's international cultural venues and an important platform for international cultural and artistic exchanges. Entering the interior space of the museum, "supremacy" runs throughout, with white walls like paper, pure geometric forms, black straight lines, diagonal lines and cross lines. Currently there are three exhibitions:

On the first three floors is "The Language of Xu Bing", an exhibition of printmaking, calligraphy, video and large-scale installations, in which Xu Bing presents his self-contained artistic concepts in a visual way. From the perspective of art, the exhibition explores the significance and value of Chinese culture in the new international context in a multi-dimensional way.

The central exhibition hall is "Xu Bing: Gravitational Theater", an installation based on the principle of perspective, in which the "English Block Character Calligraphy" is stretched and deformed by gravitational force, and is reflected by the huge mirror at the bottom of the exhibition hall, highlighting the mutual "penetration" of the work and the space. The work is reflected by a huge mirror at the bottom of the exhibition hall, emphasizing the depth of the work and the space that "penetrate" each other.

The second floor is the Dynamic World, which presents nearly 120 exhibits, including paintings, reliefs, prints, sculptures, installations, videos, and other forms of art, and re-examines Oprah and dynamic art from a global perspective. Incorporating the whimsical ideas of artists from various countries in South America, Africa, England and France, these imaginative works are created through lines, light and shadow, and the use of visual illusions.

The fourth floor is "Fun and Wisdom - Contemporary Italian Design", which is divided into 13 units according to different themes, presenting more than a hundred classic design works left in the history of Italian design in the past 70 years. Furniture of all kinds, cactus hangers, corrugated mirrors and curious lamps are both creative and fun.

IV. Hao Art Museum

Address: No. 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai

Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday 13:00-20:00, Saturday-Sunday?10:00-22:00

Hao Art Museum, a brand-new cultural institution for the collection, display, and research of contemporary art, is situated in Pudong, Shanghai, and ****has three floors of exhibition and activity It has three floors of exhibition and event space, of which the first and second floors are for exhibition space, and the third floor is for Hao Design Center and Hao Art Shop. Hao Art Museum is the first "night art museum", with exhibitions centered on machines, technology and the future, which is very valuable for visiting.